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Economic Issues - Inflation

The Consumers Price Index (CPI) provides one of New Zealand's best known statistics, the inflation rate. It measures the change in the price of purchases made every day by New Zealand households. This resource looks at the Consumers Price Index (how the CPI is calculated, who uses the CPI, expenditure weights and groups, limitations of the CPI and the 1999 CPI review) and other price indexes, such as the Capital Goods Price Index, Producers Price Index, Food Price Index, and overseas trade indexes. This resource summarises inflation in New Zealand, providing up-to-date tables and graphs, commentary and background notes.


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Source Selected pages & files
All About the Consumers Price Index (A Layperson's Guide)

Link to PDF file

Key Statistics
Price Highlights Jan/Feb 2002
JanFeb02EconomicIssuesInflation.pdf
Key Statistics
Developments in price indexes

Link to article

Key Statistics
Consumer Expenditure 1998

Link to article

Consumer Expenditure Statistics 1998

Link to Consumer Expenditure - Part 6

Statistics and information about Consumer Spending

Consumers Price Index Background Notes CPIbackgroundnoteseconomicissuesinfl.doc
Key Statistics
CPI rebase

Link to article

Consumers Price Index information releases

 

Food Price Index information releases

 

 

Producers Price Index information releases

 

 

Gross Domestic Product information releases

 

 

Quarterly Employment Survey information releases

 
Key Statistics
Price indexes for services exports and imports

Link to article

Overseas Trade Indexes information releases

 

 
Economic Reforms
Chronology of Major Events
Chronologyeconomicissuesinfl.pdf

 

Related links

Reserve Bank people, inflation and economics resource kit